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Ok time for my rants and raves post! haha.
I'll start with some bg info. Last year I bred a pair of shtcts. I received a few infertile clutches and figured I would wait until this year (they were both first year breeders). So, I put the same geckos together about Feb. of this year (now 2nd year breeders), and again got only a few infertiles. The male is a big jerk, and instead of successfully mating, he'd rather beat her up... so no more of that male. Instead I tried my JGA male Dallas (first year breeder, 107g), and he doesn't even pay attention to the ladies! About the only thing I've seen him do is steal the laying box when the female is somewhere else and not let her back in. The shtct female was losing weight, so I retired her for the year and went a few weeks with none of my geckos paired.
Another first year breeder, Nell, a mack snow poss. het albino, was 84 grams in early March, so I figured it was her turn to try. Dallas went in with Nell, and again they just kinda sat there on opposite sides of the tub for two weeks. I removed them and repeated the process numerous times (about 5), only to get nothing from it. Nell is so fat its nearly impossible to tell if she's ovulating or gravid, and as hard as I look I haven't seen signs of either so far. I recently let them go apart about a month, and then stuck them together with another male's poop inside the enclosure. I kicked up the temps, as well as added a nice humid hide (the love box) and yet again, nothing! I've dropped temps, raised temps, added light, taken away light, tried different tubs, added another males poop... I just don't know what there is left to do! It's extremely frustrating to have nothing in the incubator when i'm putting in so much effort and time with numerous pairs. HOW do first time owners with first time breeders hatch geckos with so little effort, and yet I can't even get a fertile egg!:wall: :furious3:
Ok, had to do that. I don't really feel any better, but oh well haha. It was worth a shot.
I'll start with some bg info. Last year I bred a pair of shtcts. I received a few infertile clutches and figured I would wait until this year (they were both first year breeders). So, I put the same geckos together about Feb. of this year (now 2nd year breeders), and again got only a few infertiles. The male is a big jerk, and instead of successfully mating, he'd rather beat her up... so no more of that male. Instead I tried my JGA male Dallas (first year breeder, 107g), and he doesn't even pay attention to the ladies! About the only thing I've seen him do is steal the laying box when the female is somewhere else and not let her back in. The shtct female was losing weight, so I retired her for the year and went a few weeks with none of my geckos paired.
Another first year breeder, Nell, a mack snow poss. het albino, was 84 grams in early March, so I figured it was her turn to try. Dallas went in with Nell, and again they just kinda sat there on opposite sides of the tub for two weeks. I removed them and repeated the process numerous times (about 5), only to get nothing from it. Nell is so fat its nearly impossible to tell if she's ovulating or gravid, and as hard as I look I haven't seen signs of either so far. I recently let them go apart about a month, and then stuck them together with another male's poop inside the enclosure. I kicked up the temps, as well as added a nice humid hide (the love box) and yet again, nothing! I've dropped temps, raised temps, added light, taken away light, tried different tubs, added another males poop... I just don't know what there is left to do! It's extremely frustrating to have nothing in the incubator when i'm putting in so much effort and time with numerous pairs. HOW do first time owners with first time breeders hatch geckos with so little effort, and yet I can't even get a fertile egg!:wall: :furious3:
Ok, had to do that. I don't really feel any better, but oh well haha. It was worth a shot.
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